Surely if smokers can afford to buy fags they can afford to buy their own E-cigs to help them pack up? After all if they're not buying baccy then they can spend the money they save on the vapours...or is the NHS so awash with taxpayers cash that they can splash it about like water?
And e-cigs are a fraction of the cost of real cigs too so they can switch if they want to. The story is surely just propaganda to tell people that they are not as harmful as first thought and to get people to switch. I would seriously doubt the NHS would give out e-cigs for free.
And after people have switched in large numbers to e-cigs the tax take on them will escalate.At the moment the government are probably not to concerned on the amount of money it costs to treat health related problems caused by smoking.So long as the tax revenues coming in are significantly higher than the cost of treatment,all governments will keep things much as they are.all they will do is a bit of fiddling round the edges with changes to pack advertising and the like. I gave up smoking years ago,but I have no problem with those who choose to smoke.
But I pay UK tax and it seems that the UK NHS has the money to throw away, so can I please have one from the UK?
The same NHS which is banning vaping in hospital grounds (starting in Scotland - no surprise). Madness. You couldn't make it up.
My sister was telling me about someone in her village with mental health problems who was given a small flock of sheep to care for by social services.
IF the nhs did go down this route, the cost of e-cigs would escalate. They would, in my professional opinion, have to be classified as medical devices and significant testing would have to be excised upon the manufacture and distribution. The e-cig liwuid would have to undergo the same process, all regulated by the mhra. This is a costly exercise, and manufacturers ould look to recoup costs +. I am aware of a manufacturer in the merseyside area already preparing a regulatory submision and costing up the activities involved in marketing a "prescription" regulated device and media.
Someone gets a good idea and makes a lot of money at it Shisha pens are going down a storm with teenagers as it's become fashionable Again at £4.99 a refill making making on the backs of children
